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One Water, Many Forms: Ice, Pressure and the Hydrogen Bond

Tekiah El Atem
Oct 22
1 min read

by TAKIA PARHAM

Four gold-edged cards fan across a black ground, none shown whole, moving from a thread of molten gold falling from a brush to a titanium robot seated upright around a single golden line. Lavoisier names hydrogen the generative principle of water, Gay-Lussac finds two measures to one, Pauling's hydrogen bridge lets ice float, and Bridgman squeezes water into five solid forms. Beneath them run the Chandogya Upanishad and the Bhagavad Gita, where all is clay and the sea remains sea.

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